eWEEK EDITORS

The California energy crisis is taking a toll on companies plans for the future, with a few declaring they wont expand in Silicon Valley and dozens of others considering moves to neighboring states. San Jose-based optical equipment maker ONI Systems recently decided that its major expansions will be outside California, a fact that company President […]

Intel isnt just inside anymore. Last week, the giant semiconductor company made news on three fronts: It introduced a smaller chip for controllers that it said will accelerate the acceptance of Gigabit Ethernet networking technology. It acquired VxTel for $550 million, gaining signal-conversion technology to carry both voice and data in packets over optical networks. […]

IBM has big plans for some of its smallest customers. Through its IBM Global Net Generation Business, the Armonk, N.Y., company is on a mission to get IBM products and services into the hands of service provider, portal, search engine and dot-com start- ups. To do it, the division will rely on a series of […]

In the increasingly competitive hacker insurance market, American International Group is making an offer it hopes prospective clients wont refuse — a free, comprehensive security assessment. AIG, the largest commercial insurance underwriter in the U.S., hopes the free on-site security check — which ordinarily can cost tens of thousands of dollars — will encourage more […]

Developers testing the new wireless version of Flash Player said the extension of the multimedia player beyond the desktop will open new doors for building business and entertainment applications. The early release of Macromedia Inc.s Flash Player for Microsoft Corp.s Pocket PC platform means that developers can begin building applications for Compaq Computer Corp.s iPaq, […]

For the past couple of years, Intel Corp. has pushed to diversify its offerings and reduce its revenue reliance on what it is best known for: the microprocessor. Thats been reflected in the products rolled out at the companys previous Developers Forums, where everything from consumer gadgets to peer-to-peer technologies were put on display with […]

As if things werent already hard enough, online retailers are experiencing yet another e-rip-off: electronic price tag alteration. An estimated one-third of all shopping cart applications at Internet retailing sites have software holes that make them vulnerable to the price switching scam, said Peggy Weigle, chief executive of Sanctum, a security software company in Santa […]

The convergence of two overlapping messaging protocols will be a boon for developers in their quest to get applications to interoperate over the Internet. At issue are two specifications, ebXML (electronic business Extensible Markup Language) and SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), which at times have worked at cross-purposes in trying to set a standard for […]

Napster users over the weekend may have found themselves unable to trade music, as the service began blocking access to thousands of copyrighted songs. After a court hearing in San Francisco on Friday, no legal ruling was issued, but Napster said it would voluntarily start blocking access to songs on a list provided by record […]

They say the best way to sell a new product is to create the need first, and then fulfill that need. But for Randi Altschul of New Jersey, it seems lawmakers are the ones creating a need for her product, just as its about to become available. Altschul is the head of DTC Products, makers […]